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The Outdoor Survival Handbook: A Guide To The Resources & Material Available In The Wild & How To Use Them For Food, Shelter, Warmth, & Navigation

Whether you are a novice hiker or camper, or a more experienced outdoorsperson who spend weeks or months in the wilderness The Outdoor Survival Handbookwill help you make the most of your adventures in the great outdoors. Suvival-skills expert Raymond Mears delivers dependable, thorough, and easy-to-understand advice on every aspet of outdoor survival, season by season. The essential everyday skills you'll learn include how to:

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construct a warm, waterproof shelter at any time of the year

build a good fire in all kinds of weather

gather, prepare, and cook wild foods for tasty and nutritional meals

identify medicinal herbs

collect and purify water

track and idenfity animals

orienteer using map, compass, and natural navigational aids

make tools and equipment from natural materials

and much more.

Filled with practical tips and hundreds of useful drawings and diagrams, this book will help outdoorspeople of all experience levels mater the art of taking full enjoyment in the wilderness without violating the natural wonders that surround them.

Subject
biographytravel
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 240 pages

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